@Ink - Yep. I tend to choose Geth because if you have Quarian Infiltrators in your group, it makes them easy, and Cerebus turrets can bullshit kill from across some maps. The netcode is evil too. . . you can lag while moving past a turret and fetch a packe that says you are dead - bad design.

Am I the only one who feels like 75 points is nothing for all the work you did to get a character to level 20? I feel like it should be at least twice as much. 75 is chump change considering how many points you get over the course of just playing through the game.

75 points is pretty good compared to other resources. ME2 squadmates that you kept alive and completed the mission for are only 25 points. Plus just playing multiplayer consistently can potentially double your entire readiness score. The 75 points is to compensate for going back to level 1 on that character class again.

Salarian energy drain. Quicker cooldown than sabotage, hits for an aoe that affects anything in a radius, does more damage than overload, and restores shield based on how many enemies are in the radius. A good Salarian engineer can lock down multiple geth enemies with this and decoy on pretty much any difficulty level.

Salarian Engineer is, indeed, awesome.
So the last game I played before bed bagged me enough credits for a new Spectre pack, which contained a Geth sniper rifle that has thermal imaging and can see through walls D:
Can't wait to try that bad boy out, with the armour piercing mod.
I do wish there were a way to reset your talent trees.

What's with the "special" pack in the store at the moment?

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Special pack is just equipment, i.e. missile launchers, medi-gel and the like, in about increments of 5. Truly handy if the packs aren't giving you certain equipment, like missile launchers in my case. Also, there is totally a respec item that you can get from the packs but it is a rare (gold) so you need to have some luck, or be like me and have no luck and get it instead of a weapon or character, to get it.

I finally got over my fear of being horrible at multiplayer and upsetting people, and tried it out tonight. It was awesome. I ended up playing for a few hours.

I bought a Spectre pack and got a Quarian engineer and I think a Salarian engineer. I also bought a recruit pack to see what kind of stuff was in it.

Should I just keep saving up and stick to Spectre packs, or should I buy some Veteran packs to fill out my options? Right now I'm playing a Human engineer and still have the starter weapons, but it doesn't seem to be a problem. I'm mainly spamming Overload, and I also plan on sticking with Bronze for a while. If the only worthwhile stuff is in Spectre packs, I have no problem waiting to get it, but if Veteran packs have some decent stuff, it might be nice to expand the weapons options and get some mods.

Salarian Engineer is, indeed, awesome.
So the last game I played before bed bagged me enough credits for a new Spectre pack, which contained a Geth sniper rifle that has thermal imaging and can see through walls D:
Can't wait to try that bad boy out, with the armour piercing mod.
I do wish there were a way to reset your talent trees.

What's with the "special" pack in the store at the moment?

The special pack is supplies. 5x of each, plus one random item. Is not a bad deal if you're running low on rockets, medigels, etc.

According to one of the loading messages that geth rifle has armor/cover/enemy pierce built-in, you don't need to use the mod. Same for widow/black widow.

There's a possibility of getting gold (rare) items in packs other than the Spectre pack, it's just rarer. However, I don't think it's possible to get a common or uncommon in a Spectre pack. I would recommend buying Veteran packs until you've got most of the Uncommon items you want.